STANDBY EQUITY PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Standby Equity Purchase
Agreement (this "Agreement"), dated as
of October 15, 2009, by and among Xxxxxx Mining Corp., a Nevada corporation (the
“Company”), and
the undersigned investor (the “Investor”).
WHEREAS, the parties desire
that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the
Investor shall invest up to $6,000,000 to purchase the Company’s common stock,
$.001 par value per share (the "Common
Stock”);
WHEREAS, such investments will
be made in reliance upon the provisions of Section 4(2) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), Rule 506
of Regulation D, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and/or
upon such other exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act as
may be available with respect to any or all of the investments in Common Stock
to be made hereunder;
WHEREAS, the Company has
engaged Jesup & Xxxxxx Securities Corp. (the “Placement Agent”), to
act as the Company’s exclusive placement agent in connection with the sale of
the Company’s Common Stock to the Investor hereunder pursuant to the Placement
Agent Agreement dated the date hereof by and among the Company, the Placement
Agent and the Investor (the “Placement Agent
Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are
executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement substantially in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Registration Rights
Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide certain
registration rights under the 1933 Act, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.
NOW THEREFORE, the Company and
the Investor hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. As used in this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings specified or
indicated, and such meanings shall be equally applicable to the singular and
plural forms of the defined terms.
“1933
ACT” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as it may be amended.
“1934
ACT” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be
amended.
“AFFILIATE”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(h).
“AGREEMENT”
shall mean this Standby Equity Purchase Agreement.
“BUY-IN”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.
“BUY-IN
ADJUSTMENT AMOUNT” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.
“CLOSING”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(h).
“CLOSING
DATE” shall mean, as defined in Section 2(h) and subject to the conditions set
forth in Section 2(h), the date which is six (6) Trading Days following the Put
Notice Date.
“COMMON
STOCK” shall mean the Common Stock of the Company.
“COMPANY
INDEMNITEES” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10(b).
“CONTROL”
or “CONTROLS” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(h).
“COVERING
SHARES” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.
“XXXXX”
shall mean the Electronic Date Gathering Analysis and Retrieved
system.
“EFFECTIVE
DATE” shall mean the date the SEC declares effective the Registration Statement
covering the transactions described in the Agreement.
“ENVIRONMENTAL
LAWS” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4(m).
“EXECUTION
DATE” shall mean the date all Transaction Documents are executed by the Company
and Investor.
“INVESTOR
INDEMNITEES” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10(a).
“INDEMNIFIED
LIABILITIES” shall have the meaning specified in Section 10(a).
“INEFFECTIVE
PERIOD” shall mean any period of time that the Registration Statement becomes
ineffective or unavailable for use for the sale or resale, as applicable, of any
or all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement) for any reason (or in the event the prospectus under either of the
above is not current and deliverable) during any time period required under the
Registration Rights Agreement.
“INVESTOR”
shall mean the undersigned investor.
“MAJOR
TRANSACTION” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(g).
“MARKET
PRICE” shall mean the lowest daily VWAP of the Common Stock on the Principal
Market during the Pricing Period.
“MATERIAL
ADVERSE EFFECT” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4(a).
“MAXIMUM
COMMON STOCK ISSUANCE” shall have the meaning specified in Section
2(i).
“MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE PRICE”
with respect to any Put Date shall mean 70% of the Volume Weighted
Average Price for the fifteen (15) Trading Day period immediately preceding such
Put Notice Date.
“OPEN
PERIOD” shall mean the period beginning on and including the first Trading Day
immediately following the Effective Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the
date which is twenty-four (24) months from the Effective Date and (ii)
termination of the Agreement in accordance with Section 9.
“PAYMENT
AMOUNT” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(l).
“PERSON”
shall mean an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a trust
or other entity or organization, including a government or political subdivision
or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
“PLACEMENT
AGENT” shall mean the firm of Jesup & Xxxxxx Securities Corp.
“PLACEMENT
AGENT AGREEMENT” shall mean the agreement entered into by the Placement Agent
and the Company.
“PRICING
PERIOD” shall mean the five (5) consecutive Trading Days after the Put Notice
Date.
“PRINCIPAL
MARKET” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(f).
“PROSPECTUS”
shall mean the prospectus, preliminary prospectus and supplemental prospectus
used in connection with the Registration Statement.
“PURCHASE
AMOUNT” shall mean the total amount being paid by the Investor on a particular
Closing Date to purchase the Shares.
"PURCHASE
PRICE" shall mean 88% of Market Price during the Pricing Period.
“PUT
AMOUNT” shall mean, up to a maximum of $200,000.
“PUT
NOTICE” shall mean a written notice sent to the Investor by the Company stating
the Put Amount pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and stating the current
number of Shares issued and outstanding on such date.
“PUT
NOTICE DATE” shall mean the Trading Day immediately following the day on which
the Investor receives a Put Notice, however a Put Notice shall be deemed
delivered on (x) the Trading Day it is received by facsimile or otherwise by the
Investor if such notice is received prior to 12:00 noon Eastern Time (receipt
being deemed to occur if the Company possess a facsimile confirmation showing
completed transmission by such time), or (y) the immediately succeeding Trading
Day if it is received by facsimile or otherwise after 12:00 noon Eastern Time on
a Trading Day (receipt being documented as described in (x)
above). No Put Notice may be deemed delivered on a day that is not a
full Trading Day unless otherwise agreed by the Investor and Company in
writing.
“REGISTRABLE
SECURITIES” shall have the meaning set forth in Registration Rights
Agreement.
“REGISTRATION
OPINION DEADLINE” shall mean the date that is three (3) Trading Days prior to
each Put Notice Date.
“REGISTRATION
PERIOD” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(c).
“REGISTRATION
RIGHTS AGREEMENT” shall mean the Agreement entered into by the Company with
Investor for the registration of this transaction.
“REGISTRATION
STATEMENT” means the registration statement of the Company filed under the 1933
Act covering this transaction.
“RELATED
PARTY” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5(h).
“REPURCHASE
EVENT” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(l).
“RESOLUTION”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 8(f).
“SEC”
shall mean the Securities & Exchange Commission.
“SEC
DOCUMENTS” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4(f).
“SECURITIES”
shall mean the shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the terms of the
Agreement.
“SHARES”
shall mean the shares of common stock of the Company having a par value of $.001
per share.
“SOLD
SHARES” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.
“SUBSIDIARIES”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 4(a).
“TRADING
DAY” shall mean any day on which the Principal Market for the Company’s common
stock is open for trading.
“TRANSACTION
DOCUMENTS” shall mean this Agreement, Registration Rights Agreement, and each of
the other agreements entered into by the parties hereto in connection with the
Agreement.
“VALUATION
EVENT” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2(k).
“VOLUME
WEIGHTED AVERAGE PRICE” or “VWAP” shall be as reported by Bloomberg Financial
Markets (“Bloomberg”), or if
not available through Bloomberg because of delisting, then the average of the
bid prices of any market makers for the Company’s Common Stock as reported in
the “pink sheets” by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.
2. Purchase And Sale Of Common
Stock
a. Purchase and Sale of Common
Stock. Upon the terms and
conditions set
forth herein, the Company shall issue and sell to the Investor, and the Investor
shall purchase from the Company, up to 4,000,000 Shares having an aggregate
Purchase Price of up to $6,000,000.
b. Delivery of Put
Notices. Subject
to the terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents, and from time to time
during the Open Period the Company may, in its sole discretion, deliver a Put
Notice to the Investor which states the number of Shares which the Company
intends to sell to the Investor during the Pricing Period. The Put
Amount may be a maximum of up to $200,000. Once the Put Notice is received by
the Investor, the Put Notice shall not be terminated, withdrawn or otherwise
revoked by the Company except as set forth in this Agreement. During
the Open Period, the Company shall not be entitled to submit a Put Notice until
after the previous closing has been completed. The Purchase Price shall be equal
to 88% of the Market Price. The Market Price shall be equal to the lowest daily
VWAP of the Common Stock during the Pricing Period.
The Company shall, in its sole
discretion, be entitled to terminate the balance of the current Put Notice, if
the closing bid price during the applicable Pricing Period with respect to that
Put Notice is less than seventy percent (70%) of the Volume Weighted Average
Price of the Common Stock for the fifteen (15) Trading Days prior to the Put
Notice (“Minimum
Acceptable Price”). In the event that the closing bid price
for the applicable Pricing Period is less than the Minimum Acceptable Price, the
Company may elect, by sending written notice to the Investors via facsimile, to
cancel that portion of the Put Notice remaining for that number of Trading Days
remaining after the written cancellation notice is deemed received by the
Investors. The written notice shall be deemed received by the Investors on (i)
the Trading Day it is received by facsimile or otherwise by the Investors if
such notice is received on or prior to 12:00 noon New York time, or (ii) the
immediately succeeding Trading Day if it is received by facsimile after 12:00
noon New York time on a Trading Day or at anytime on a day which is not a
Trading Day. The Company shall still be responsible however, for
delivering that number of shares of Common Stock that were sold by the Investors
through and including the end of the Trading Day the written cancellation notice
is deemed received by the Investors.
Within
ten (10) calendar days after the commencement of each calendar quarter occurring
subsequent to the commencement of the Open Period, the Company undertakes to
notify Investor as to its reasonable expectations as to the Put Amount it
intends to raise during such calendar quarter, if any, through the issuance of
Put Notices. Such notification shall constitute only the Company's good faith
estimate with respect to such calendar quarter and shall in no way obligate the
Company to raise such amount during such calendar quarter or otherwise limit its
ability to deliver Put Notices during such calendar quarter. The failure by the
Company to comply with this provision can be cured by the Company's notifying
Investor at any time as to its reasonable expectations with respect to the
current calendar quarter.
c. Interest. It
is the intention of the parties that only interest that may be payable under
this Agreement shall not exceed the maximum amount permitted under any
applicable law. If a law, which applies to this Agreement which sets the maximum
interest amount, is finally interpreted so that the interest in connection with
this Agreement exceeds the permitted limits, then: (i) any such interest shall
be reduced by the amount necessary to reduce the interest to the permitted
limit; and (ii) any sums already collected (if any) from the Company which
exceed the permitted limits will be refunded to the Company. The
Investor may choose to make this refund by reducing the amount that the Company
owes under this Agreement or by making a direct payment to the
Company. If a refund reduces the amount that the Company owes the
Investor, the reduction will be treated as a partial payment. In case
any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to
be excessive in scope or otherwise invalid or unenforceable, such provision
shall be adjusted rather than voided, if possible, so that it is enforceable to
the maximum extent possible, and the validity and enforceability of the
remaining provisions of this Agreement will not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
d. Investor’s Obligation to
Purchase Shares. Subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement, following the Investor's receipt of a validly delivered Put Notice,
the Investor shall be required to purchase from the Company during the related
Pricing Period that number of Shares having an aggregate Purchase Price equal to
the lesser of (i) the Put Amount set forth in the Put Notice, and (ii) 20% of
the aggregate trading volume during the applicable Pricing Period multiplied by
the Purchase Price, but only if said Shares bear no restrictive legend, are not
subject to stop transfer instructions and are delivered to the Investor per its
written instructions, pursuant to Section 2(h), on or prior to the applicable
Closing Date.
e. Limitation on Investor's
Obligation to Purchase Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, in no event shall the Investor be required to
purchase, and the Company shall in no event sell to the Investor, that number of
Shares, which when added to the sum of the number of Shares beneficially owned,
(as such term is defined under Section 13(d) and Rule 13d-3 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as may be amended, (the “1934 Act”)), by the
Investor, would exceed 4.99% of the number of Shares outstanding on the Put
Notice Date for such Pricing Period, as determined in accordance with Rule
13d-1(j) under the 1934 Act. Each Put Notice shall include a representation of
the Company as to the number of Shares of Common Stock outstanding on the
related Put Notice Date as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
1934 Act. In the event that the number of Shares of Common Stock outstanding as
determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act is different on any
date during a Pricing Period than on the Put Notice Date associated with such
Pricing Period, then the number of Shares of Common Stock outstanding on such
date during such Pricing Period shall govern for purposes of determining whether
the Investor would be acquiring beneficial ownership of more than 4.99% of the
number of Shares of Common Stock outstanding during such period.
f. Conditions to Investor's
Obligation to Purchase Shares. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not be entitled to deliver a Put
Notice and require the Investor to purchase any Shares at a Closing (as defined
in Section 2(h)) unless each of the following conditions are
satisfied:
(i) a
Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and shall remain
effective and available for the resale of all the Registrable Securities (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) at all times during the Pricing
Period;
(ii) at
all times during the period beginning on the related Put Notice Date and ending
on and including the related Closing Date, the Common Stock shall have been
listed on The American Stock Exchange, Inc. or The New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
or designated on the Nasdaq National Market, The Nasdaq SmallCap Market, or the
National Association of Securities Dealer’s, Inc. OTC electronic bulletin board
(the "Principal
Market") and shall not have been suspended from trading thereon for a
period of five (5) consecutive Trading Days during the Open Period and the
Company shall not have been notified of any pending or threatened proceeding or
other action to delist or suspend the Common Stock;
(iii)
the Company has complied with its obligations and is otherwise not in breach of
a material provision, or in default under, this Agreement, the Registration
Rights Agreement or any other agreement executed in connection herewith which
has not been corrected prior to delivery of the Put Notice Date;
and
(iv)
no injunction shall have been issued, or action commenced by a governmental
authority, prohibiting the purchase or the issuance of the Common
Stock.
If any of
the events described in clauses (i) through (iv) above occurs during a Pricing
Period, then the Investor shall have no obligation to purchase the Put Amount of
Common Stock set forth in the applicable Put Notice.
g. For purposes of this
Agreement, a "Major
Transaction" shall be deemed to have occurred at the closing of any of
the following events: (i) the consolidation, merger or other business
combination of the Company with or into another entity (other than pursuant to a
migratory merger effected solely for the purposes of changing the jurisdiction
of incorporation of the Company) (ii) the sale or transfer of all or
substantially all of the Company's assets; or (iii) the consummation of a
purchase, tender or exchange offer made to, and accepted by, the holders of more
than 30% of the economic interest in, or the combined voting power of all
classes of voting stock of, the Company.
h. Mechanics of Purchase of
Shares by Investor. Subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Sections 2(f), 7 and 8, the closing of the purchase by
the Investor of Shares (a "Closing") shall occur
on the date which is six (6) Trading Days following the Put Notice Date (a
"Closing
Date"). On or prior to each Closing Date, (i) the Company
shall deliver to the Investor per its written instructions, certificates
representing the Shares to be issued to the Investor on such date and registered
in the name of the Investor or deposit such Shares into the account(s) (with the
Investor receiving confirmation that the Shares are in such account(s))
designated by the Investor for the benefit of the Investor and (ii) the Investor
shall deliver to the Company the Purchase Price to be paid for such Shares
(after receipt of confirmation of delivery of such Shares), determined as
aforesaid, by wire transfer. In lieu of delivering physical certificates
representing the Common Stock and provided that the Transfer Agent then is
participating in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated
Securities Transfer (“Fast”) program, upon
request of the Investor, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable
efforts to cause the Transfer Agent to electronically transmit the shares of
Common Stock by crediting the account of Investors’ broker (which shall be
specified by that Investor a reasonably sufficient time in advance) with DTC
through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission (“DWAC”) system, and
provide proof satisfactory to the Investor of such delivery.
The
Company acknowledges that the Investor may sell shares of the Company’s Common
Stock corresponding with a particular Put Notice after the Put Notice is
received by the Investor.
i. Overall Limit on Common
Stock Issuable. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, if during the Open Period the Company becomes listed on an exchange
that limits the number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued without
shareholder approval, then the number of Shares issuable by the Company and
purchasable by the Investor, including the shares of Common Stock issuable to
the Investors pursuant to Section 11(b), shall not exceed that number of the
shares of Common Stock that may be issuable without shareholder approval,
subject to appropriate adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends,
combinations or other similar recapitalization affecting the Common Stock (the
"Maximum Common Stock
Issuance"), unless the issuance
of Shares, including any Common Stock to be issued pursuant to Section 11(b), in
excess of the Maximum Common Stock Issuance shall first be approved by the
Company's shareholders in accordance with applicable law and the By-laws and
Articles of Incorporation of the Company, if such issuance of shares of Common
Stock could cause a delisting on the Principal Market. The parties understand
and agree that the Company's failure to seek or obtain such shareholder approval
shall in no way adversely affect the validity and due authorization of the
issuance and sale of Shares hereunder or the Investor's obligation in accordance
with the terms and conditions hereof to purchase a number of Shares in the
aggregate up to the Maximum Common Stock Issuance limitation, and that such
approval pertains only to the applicability of the Maximum Common Stock Issuance
limitation provided in this Section 2(i).
j. "Valuation Event"
shall mean an event in which the Company at any time during a “Pricing Period”
takes any of the following actions:
(i) subdivides
or combines its Common Stock;
(ii) pays
a dividend in Common Stock or makes any other Purchase
of its
Common Stock, except for dividends paid with respect to the Preferred
Stock;
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(iii)
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issues
any options or other rights to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock and
the price per share for which Common
Stock
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may at
any time thereafter be issuable pursuant to such options or
other
rights shall be less than the Bid Price in effect
immediately
prior to such issuance;
(iv) issues
any securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common
Stock
and the consideration per share for which shares of Common
Stock
may at any time thereafter be issuable pursuant to the terms
of
such convertible or exchangeable securities shall be less than
the Bid
Price in effect immediately prior to such issuance;
(v) issues
shares of Common Stock otherwise than as provided in the
foregoing
subsections (i) through (iv), at a price per share less, or
for other
consideration lower, than the Bid Price in effect immediately prior to such
issuance, or without consideration;
(vi) makes
a Purchase of its assets or evidences of indebtedness
to
the holders of Common Stock as a dividend in liquidation or
by way of
return of capital or other than as a dividend payable
out of
earnings or surplus legally available for dividends under applicable law or any
Purchase to such holders made in respect of the sale of all or substantially all
of the Company's assets (other than under the circumstances provided for in the
foregoing subsections (i) through (v); or
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(vii)
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takes
any action affecting the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding,
other than an action described in any of the foregoing subsections (i)
through (vi) hereof, inclusive, which in the opinion of the Company's
Board of Directors, determined in good faith, would have a materially
adverse effect upon the rights of Investor at the time of a Put Notice is
delivered to Investor.
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k. The
Company agrees that it shall not take any action that would result in a
Valuation Event occurring during a Pricing Period.
l. Delisting;
Suspension. If at any time during the Open Period or within
thirty (30) calendar days after the end of the Open Period, (i) the Registration
Statement, after it has been declared effective, shall not remain effective and
available for sale of all the Registrable Securities, (ii) the Common Stock
shall not be listed on the Principal Market or shall have been suspended from
trading thereon (excluding suspensions of not more than one trading day
resulting from business announcements by the Company) or the Company shall have
been notified of any pending or threatened proceeding or other action to delist
or suspend the Common Stock, (iii) there shall have occurred a Major Transaction
(as defined in Section 2(g)) or the public announcement of a pending Major
Transaction which has not been abandoned or terminated, or (iv) the Registration
Statement is no longer effective or stale for a period of more than five (5)
Trading Days as a result of the Company to timely file its financials, the
Company shall repurchase within thirty (30) calendar days of the occurrence of
one of the events listed in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv)above (each a “Repurchase Event”)
and subject to the limitations imposed by applicable federal and state law, all
or any part of the Shares issued to the Investor within the sixty (60) Trading
Days preceding the occurrence of the Repurchase Event and then held by the
Investor at a price per Share equal to the highest Volume Weighted Average Price
during the period beginning on the date of the Repurchase Event and ending on
and including the date on which the Investor is paid by the Company for the
repurchase of the Shares (the "Payment Amount"). If
the Company fails to pay to the Investor the full aggregate Payment Amount
within five (5) calendar days of the occurrence of a Repurchase Event, the
Company shall pay to the Investor, on the first Trading Day following such fifth
(5th)
calendar day, in addition to and not in lieu of the Payment Amount payable by
the Company to the Investor, an amount equal to 2% of the aggregate Payment
Amount then due and payable to the Investor, in cash by wire transfer, plus
compounded annual interest of 18% on such Payment Amount during the period,
beginning on the day following such fifth calendar day, during which such
Payment Amount, or any portion thereof, is outstanding.
3. Investor’s
Representations and Warranties.
The Investor represents and warrants to
the Company that:
a. Sophisticated
Investor. The Investor has such knowledge, sophistication and
experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating
the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the
Securities.
b. Authorization;
Enforcement. This
Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf
of the Investor and is a valid and binding agreement of the Investor enforceable
against the Investor in accordance with its terms, subject as to enforceability
to general principles of equity and to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or
affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors' rights and
remedies..
c. Section 9 of the 1934
Act. During the Open Period, the Investor will comply with the
provisions of Section 9 of the 1934 Act, and the rules promulgated thereunder,
with respect to transactions involving the Common Stock.
d. Accredited
Investor. Investor is an “Accredited Investor” as that term is
defined in Rule 501(a)(3) of Regulation D of the 1933 Act.
e. No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Investor and the consummation by the Investor of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a
violation of the Articles of Incorporation or the By-laws or (ii) conflict with,
or constitute a material default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time
or both would become a material default) under, or give to others any rights of
termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any material agreement,
contract, indenture mortgage, indebtedness or instrument to which the Investor
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or result in a violation of any law,
rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to the Investor or any of
its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the Investor or any of its
Subsidiaries is bound or affected. The business of the Investor and its
Subsidiaries is not being conducted, and shall not be conducted, in violation of
any law, statute, ordinance, rule, order or regulation of any governmental
authority or agency, regulatory or self-regulatory agency, or court, except for
possible violations the sanctions for which either individually or in the
aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
f. Nothing contained in this
Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents creates or establishes a fiduciary
relationship on the part of the Investor or its principals. Nothing contained in
this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents establishes a duty on the
part of the Investor or its principals not to trade on or otherwise use any
information disclosed to the Investor by the Company.
g. Trading Activities.
The Investor’s trading activities with respect to the Company’s Common
Stock shall be in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities
laws, rules and regulations and the rules and regulations of the Principal
Market on which the Company’s Common Stock is listed or traded. Neither the
Investor nor its affiliates has an open short position in the Common Stock of
the Company, the Investor agrees that it shall not, and that it will cause its
affiliates not to, engage in any short sales of or hedging transactions with
respect to the Common Stock during the term of this Agreement and for a period
of ten (10) Trading Days following the termination of this Agreement, provided that the Company
acknowledges and agrees that upon receipt of an Put Notice the Investor has the
right to sell the shares to be issued to the Investor pursuant to the Put Notice
during the applicable Pricing Period.
h. Investment Purpose.
The Securities are being purchased by the Investor for its own account, and for
investment purposes. The Investor agrees not to assign or in any way
transfer the Investor’s rights to the securities or any interest therein and
acknowledges that the Company will not recognize any purported assignment or
transfer except in accordance with applicable Federal and state securities laws.
No other person has or will have a direct or indirect beneficial interest
in the Securities. The Investor agrees not to sell, hypothecate or
otherwise transfer the Investor’s Securities unless the Securities are
registered under Federal and applicable state securities laws or unless, in the
opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company, an exemption from such laws is
available.
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4.
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Representations And
Warranties Of The Company.
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Except as set forth in the Schedules
attached hereto, the Company represents and warrants to the Investor
that:
a. Organization and
Qualification. The Company and its “Subsidiaries” (which
for purposes of this Agreement means any entity in which the Company, directly
or indirectly, owns capital stock or holds an equity or similar interest) (a
complete list of which is set forth in Schedule 4(a)) are corporations duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the respective
jurisdictions of their incorporation, and have the requisite corporate power and
authorization to own their properties and to carry on their business as now
being conducted. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction
in which its ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it
makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to be
so qualified or be in good standing would not have a Material Adverse Effect. As
used in this Agreement, “Material Adverse
Effect” means any material adverse effect on the business, properties,
assets, operations, results of operations, financial condition or prospects of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, if any, taken as a whole, or on the
transactions contemplated hereby or by the agreements and instruments to be
entered into in connection herewith, or on the authority or ability of the
Company to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents (as defined
in Section 1 and 4(b)below).
b. Authorization; Enforcement;
Compliance with Other Instruments. (i) The Company has the
requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and perform this
Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Placement Agent Agreement and
each of the other agreements entered into by the parties hereto in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction
Documents”), and to issue the Shares in accordance with the terms hereof
and thereof, (ii) the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by the
Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, including without limitation the reservation for issuance and the
issuance of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement, have been duly and validly
authorized by the Company's Board of Directors and no further consent or
authorization is required by the Company, its Board of Directors, or its
shareholders, (iii) the Transaction Documents have been duly and validly
executed and delivered by the Company, and (iv) the Transaction Documents
constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against
the Company in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be
limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or
affecting generally, the enforcement of creditors' rights and
remedies.
c. Capitalization. As
of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i)
75,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which as of the date hereof, 18,000,000
shares are issued and outstanding, -0- shares of Preferred Stock and
approximately -0- shares of Common Stock are issuable upon the exercise of
options, warrants and conversion rights. All of such outstanding
shares have been, or upon issuance will be, validly issued and are fully paid
and nonassessable. Except as disclosed in Schedule 4(c) which is
attached hereto and made a part hereof, (i) no shares of the Company's capital
stock are subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens
or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company, (ii) there are no
outstanding debt securities, (iii) there are no outstanding shares of capital
stock, options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of
any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into,
any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or
contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional shares of
capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants,
scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, any shares of capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) there are no agreements or
arrangements under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to
register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act (except the
Registration Rights Agreement), (v) there are no outstanding securities of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar
provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or
arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become
bound to redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (vi) there
are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions
that will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities as described in this
Agreement, (vii) the Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or
"phantom stock" plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement and (viii)
there is no dispute as to the class of any shares of the Company's capital
stock. The Company has furnished to the Investor, or the Investor has had access
through XXXXX to, true and correct copies of the Company's Articles of
Incorporation, as in effect on the date hereof (the “Articles Of
Incorporation”), and the Company's By-laws, as in effect on the date
hereof (the “By-laws”), and the
terms of all securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock and the
material rights of the holders thereof in respect thereto.
d. Issuance of
Shares. A
sufficient number of Shares issuable pursuant to this Agreement has been duly
authorized and reserved for issuance (subject to adjustment pursuant to the
Company's covenant set forth in Section 5(f) below) pursuant to this
Agreement. Upon issuance in accordance with this Agreement, the
Securities will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from
all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof. In the event the
Company cannot register all of the Registrable Securities, due to the remaining
number of authorized shares of Common Stock being insufficient, the Company will
use its best efforts to register the maximum number of shares it can based on
the remaining balance of authorized shares and will use its best efforts to
increase the number of its authorized shares as soon as reasonably
practicable.
e. No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a violation
of the Articles of Incorporation, any Certificate of Designations, Preferences
and Rights of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company or the
By-laws or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a material default (or an event
which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a material default)
under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or
cancellation of, any material agreement, contract, indenture mortgage,
indebtedness or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party, or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or
decree (including United States federal and state securities laws and
regulations and the rules and regulations of the Principal Market or principal
securities exchange or trading market on which the Common Stock is traded or
listed) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any
property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or
affected. Except as disclosed in Schedule 4(e), neither the Company nor its
Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of, or in default under, the Articles
of Incorporation, any Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of any
outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company or the By-laws or their
organizational charter or by-laws, respectively, or any contract, agreement,
mortgage, indebtedness, indenture, instrument, judgment, decree or order or any
statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries,
except for possible conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments,
accelerations, cancellations and violations that would not individually or in
the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect. The business of the Company and
its Subsidiaries is not being conducted, and shall not be conducted, in
violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule, order or regulation of any
governmental authority or agency, regulatory or self-regulatory agency, or
court, except for possible violations the sanctions for which either
individually or in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as specifically contemplated by this Agreement and as
required under the 1933 Act, the Company is not required to obtain any consent,
authorization, permit or order of, or make any filing or registration (except
the filing of a registration statement) with, any court, governmental
authority or agency, regulatory or self-regulatory agency or other third party
in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under, or
contemplated by, the Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms hereof
or thereof. All consents, authorizations, permits, orders, filings and
registrations which the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding
sentence have been obtained or effected on or prior to the date hereof and are
in full force and effect as of the date hereof. Except as disclosed in Schedule
4(e), the Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of any facts or circumstances
which might give rise to any of the foregoing. The Company is not, and will not
be, in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal Market as in
effect on the date hereof and on each of the Closing Dates and is not aware of
any facts which would reasonably lead to delisting of the Common Stock by the
Principal Market in the foreseeable future.
f. SEC Documents; Financial
Statements. The Company is not delinquent in its filing of any
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed
by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all
of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits included
therein and financial statements and schedules thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the "SEC Documents"). The
Company has delivered to the Investor or its representatives, or they have had
access through XXXXX to, the SEC Documents. As of their respective dates, the
SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder
applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they
were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. As of their respective dates, the financial statements of
the Company included in the SEC Documents complied as to form in all material
respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and
regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. Such financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (i) as may be
otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii)
in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude
footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all
material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof
and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended
(subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit
adjustments). No other written information provided by or on behalf of the
Company to the Investor which is not included in the SEC Documents, including,
without limitation, information referred to in Section 4(d) of this Agreement,
contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance
under which they are or were made, not misleading. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries or any of their officers, directors, employees or agents
have provided the Investor with any material, nonpublic information which was
not publicly disclosed prior to the date hereof and any material, nonpublic
information provided to the Investor by the Company or its Subsidiaries or any
of their officers, directors, employees or agents prior to any Closing Date
shall be publicly disclosed by the Company prior to such Closing Date. Nothing
contained herein creates or establishes a fiduciary relationship on the part of
the Investor or its principals. Nothing contained herein establishes a duty on
the part of the Investor or its principals not to trade on or otherwise use any
information disclosed to the Investor by the Company.
g. Absence of Certain
Changes. Except as disclosed in Schedule 4(g) or the SEC
Documents filed at least five (5) days prior to the date hereof, there has been
no change or development in the business, properties, assets, operations,
financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company or its
Subsidiaries which has had or reasonably could have a Material Adverse Effect.
The Company has not taken any steps, and does not currently expect to take any
steps, to seek protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company or
its Subsidiaries have any knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors
intend to initiate involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.
h. Absence of
Litigation. Except as set forth in Schedule 4(h), there is no
action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by any court,
public board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending
or, to the knowledge of the executive officers of Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting the Company, the Common Stock or
any of the Company's Subsidiaries or any of the Company's or the Company's
Subsidiaries' officers or directors in their capacities as such, in which an
adverse decision could have a Material Adverse Effect.
i. Acknowledgment Regarding
Investor's Purchase of Shares. The Company acknowledges and
agrees that the Investor is acting solely in the capacity of arm's length
purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the
Investor is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in
any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and any advice given by the
Investor or any of its respective representatives or agents in connection with
the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
is merely incidental to the Investor's purchase of the Securities. The Company
further represents to the Investor that the Company's decision to enter into the
Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the
Company and its representatives.
j. No Undisclosed Events,
Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances. No event,
liability, development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or to its
knowledge is contemplated to occur, with respect to the Company or its
Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties, assets, prospects,
operations or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the
Company under applicable securities laws on a registration statement filed with
the SEC relating to an issuance and sale by the Company of its Common Stock and
which has not been publicly announced.
k. Employee
Relations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
involved in any union labor dispute nor, to the knowledge of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, is any such dispute threatened. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the
Company and its Subsidiaries believe that relations with their employees are
good. No executive officer (as defined in Rule 501(f) of the 0000 Xxx) has
notified the Company that such officer intends to leave the Company's employ or
otherwise terminate such officer's employment with the Company.
l. Intellectual Property
Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess
adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks,
service xxxx registrations, service names, patents, patent rights, copyrights,
inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade secrets and
rights necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted. Except
as set forth on Schedule 4(l), none of the Company's trademarks, trade names,
service marks, service xxxx registrations, service names, patents, patent
rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, government authorizations,
trade secrets or other intellectual property rights necessary to conduct its
business as now or as proposed to be conducted have expired or terminated, or
are expected to expire or terminate within two years from the date of this
Agreement. The Company and its Subsidiaries do not have any knowledge of any
infringement by the Company or its Subsidiaries of trademark, trade name rights,
patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, service names, service
marks, service xxxx registrations, trade secret or other similar rights of
others, or of any such development of similar or identical trade secrets or
technical information by others and, except as set forth on Schedule 4(l), there
is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought against, or to the
Company's knowledge, being threatened against, the Company or its Subsidiaries
regarding trademark, trade name, patents, patent rights, invention, copyright,
license, service names, service marks, service xxxx registrations, trade secret
or other infringement; and the Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of any
facts or circumstances which might give rise to any of the foregoing. The
Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect
the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual
properties.
m. Environmental
Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are in compliance
with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and
regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the
environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or
contaminants ("Environmental Laws"),
(ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them
under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and
(iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit,
license or approval where, in each of the three foregoing cases, the failure to
so comply would have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
n. Title. The
Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all
real property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by
them which is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in
each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as
are described in Schedule 4(n) or such as do not materially affect the value of
such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of
such property by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any real property and
facilities held under lease by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are held
by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as
are not material and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made
of such property and buildings by the Company and its Subsidiaries.
o. Insurance. The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized
financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as
management of the Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses
in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor
any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied
for and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has any reason to believe
that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when
such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may
be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
p. Regulatory
Permits. The Company and its Subsidiaries have in full force
and effect all certificates, approvals, authorizations and permits from the
appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities and
comparable foreign regulatory agencies, necessary to own, lease or operate their
respective properties and assets and conduct their respective businesses, and
neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has received any notice of
proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate,
approval, authorization or permit, except for such certificates, approvals,
authorizations or permits which if not obtained, or such revocations or
modifications which, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
q. Internal Accounting
Controls. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries agrees to
maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide
reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management's general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability,
(iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general
or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is
compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action
is taken with respect to any differences.
r. No Materially Adverse
Contracts, Etc. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is subject to any charter, corporate or other legal restriction, or
any judgment, decree, order, rule or regulation which in the judgment of the
Company's officers has or is expected in the future to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any
contract or agreement which in the judgment of the Company's officers has or is
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
s. Tax
Status. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has made or
filed all United States federal and state income and all other tax returns,
reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject
(unless and only to the extent that the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has
set aside on its books provisions reasonably adequate for the payment of all
unpaid and unreported taxes) and has paid all taxes and other governmental
assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be
due on such returns, reports and declarations, except those being contested in
good faith and has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the
payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such
returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any
material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction,
and the officers of the Company know of no basis for any such
claim.
t. Certain
Transactions. Except as set forth on Schedule 4(t) and in the
SEC Documents filed at least ten days prior to the date hereof and except for
arm's length transactions pursuant to which the Company makes payments in the
ordinary course of business upon terms no less favorable than the Company could
obtain from third parties and other than the grant of stock options disclosed on
Schedule 4(c), none of the officers, directors, or employees of the Company is
presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
(other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any
contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of
services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from,
or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such
employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any corporation, partnership,
trust or other entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a
substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or
partner.
u. Dilutive
Effect. The Company understands and acknowledges that the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon purchases pursuant to this
Agreement will increase in certain circumstances including, but not necessarily
limited to, the circumstance wherein the trading price of the Common Stock
declines during the period between the Effective Date and the end of the Open
Period. The Company’s executive officers and directors have studied
and fully understand the nature of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and recognize that they have a potential dilutive
effect. The board of directors of the Company has concluded, in its
good faith business judgment that such issuance is in the best interests of the
Company.
v. Right of First
Refusal. The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior
written consent of Investor offer, sell, grant any option to purchase, or
otherwise dispose of (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to
purchase or other disposition) any of its Common Stock or securities convertible
into Common Stock at a price that is less than the market price of the Common
Stock at the time of issuance of such security or investment (a "Subsequent
Financing") for a period of one year after the Effective Date, except (i)
the granting of options or warrants to employees, officers, directors and
consultants, and the issuance of shares upon exercise of options granted, under
any stock option plan heretofore or hereinafter duly adopted by the Company,
(ii) shares issued upon exercise of any currently outstanding warrants or
options and upon conversion of any currently outstanding convertible debenture
or convertible preferred stock, in each case disclosed pursuant to Section 4(c),
(iii) securities issued in connection with the capitalization or creation of a
joint venture with a strategic partner, (iv) shares issued to pay part or all of
the purchase price for the acquisition by the Company of another entity (which,
for purposes of this clause (iv), shall not include an individual or group of
individuals), and (v) shares issued in a bona fide public offering by the
Company of its securities, unless (A) the
Company delivers to Investor a written notice (the "Subsequent Financing
Notice") of its intention to effect such Subsequent Financing, which
Subsequent Financing Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed
terms of such Subsequent Financing, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised
thereunder, the person with whom such Subsequent Financing shall be effected,
and attached to which shall be a term sheet or similar document relating thereto
and (B) Investor shall not have notified the Company by 5:00 p.m. (New York
time) on the fifth (5th) Trading Day after its receipt of the Subsequent
Financing Notice of its willingness to provide, subject to completion of
mutually acceptable documentation, financing to the Company on substantially the
terms set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice. If Investor shall fail to
notify the Company of its intention to enter into such negotiations within such
time period, then the Company may effect the Subsequent Financing substantially
upon the terms set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice; Provided That the
Company shall provide Investor with a second Subsequent Financing Notice, and
Investor shall again have the right of first refusal set forth above in this
Section, if the Subsequent Financing subject to the initial Subsequent Financing
Notice shall not have been consummated for any reason on the terms set forth in
such Subsequent Financing Notice within thirty (30) Trading Days after the date
of the initial Subsequent Financing Notice. The rights granted to Investor in
this Section are not subject to any prior right of first refusal given to any
other person except as disclosed on Schedule 4(c).
w. Lock-up. The
Company agrees to use its best efforts to have its officers, directors and
affiliates refrain from selling Common Stock during each Pricing
Period.
x. No General
Solicitation. Neither the Company, nor any of its affiliates,
nor any person acting on its behalf, has engaged in any form of general
solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in
connection with the offer or sale of the Common Stock offered
hereby.
y. Opinion of Counsel.
Investor shall receive an opinion letter from counsel to the Company on or
before the Execution Date, which opinion letter shall be attached as Exhibit
C.
z. Opinion of Counsel.
The Company will obtain for the Investor, at the Company’s expense, any
and all opinions of counsel which may be reasonably required in order to sell
the securities issuable hereunder without restriction. (See Exhibit E attached
hereto.)
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a. Best
Efforts. The Company shall use its best efforts timely to
satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Section 7 of
this Agreement.
b. Blue
Sky. The Company shall, at its sole cost and expense, on or
before each of the Closing Dates, take such action as the Company shall
reasonably determine is necessary to qualify the Securities for, or obtain
exemption for the Securities for, sale to the Investor at each of the Closings
pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or "Blue Sky" laws of
such states of the United States, as specified by Investor, and shall provide
evidence of any such action so taken to the Investor on or prior to the Closing
Date. The Company shall, at its sole cost and expense, make all filings and
reports relating to the offer and sale of the Securities required under the
applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of such states of the United States
following each of the Closing Dates.
c. Reporting
Status. Until the earlier of (i) the first date which is after
the date this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9 and on which the
Holders (as that term is defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) may sell
all of the Securities acquired pursuant to this Agreement without restriction
pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the 1933 Act (or successor thereto), or
(ii) the date on which (A) the Holders shall have sold all the Securities
issuable hereunder and (B) this Agreement has been terminated pursuant to
Section 9 (the "Registration
Period"), the Company shall file all reports required to be filed with
the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act.
d. Use of
Proceeds. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of
the Shares (excluding amounts paid by the Company for fees as set forth in the
Transaction Documents) for general corporate and working capital
purposes.
e. Financial
Information. The Company agrees to use its best efforts to
timely file all reports on XXXXX as may be applicable.
f. Reservation of
Shares. Subject to the following sentence, the Company shall
take all action necessary to at all times have authorized, and reserved for the
purpose of issuance, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to provide
for the issuance of the Securities hereunder. In the event that the Company
determines that it does not have a sufficient number of authorized shares of
Common Stock to reserve and keep available for issuance as described in this
Section 5(f), the Company shall use its best efforts to increase the number of
authorized shares of Common Stock by seeking shareholder approval for the
authorization of such additional shares.
g. Listing. The
Company shall promptly secure the listing of all of the Registrable Securities
(as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) upon the Principal Market and
each other national securities exchange and automated quotation system, if any,
upon which shares of Common Stock are then listed (subject to official notice of
issuance) and shall maintain, so long as any other shares of Common Stock shall
be so listed, such listing of all Registrable Securities from time to time
issuable under the terms of the Transaction Documents. The Company shall
maintain the Common Stock's authorization for quotation on the Principal Market.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action which
would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the
Common Stock on the Principal Market (excluding suspensions of not more than one
trading day resulting from business announcements by the Company). The Company
shall promptly provide to the Investor copies of any notices it receives from
the Principal Market regarding the continued eligibility of the Common Stock for
listing on such automated quotation system or securities exchange. The Company
shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations
under this Section 5(g).
h. Transactions With
Affiliates. Except as set forth in Schedule 4(t) attached
hereto, the Company shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries not to,
enter into, amend, modify or supplement, or permit any Subsidiary to enter into,
amend, modify or supplement, any agreement, transaction, commitment or
arrangement with any of its or any Subsidiary's officers, directors, persons who
were officers or directors at any time during the previous two years,
shareholders who beneficially own 5% or more of the Common Stock, or affiliates
or with any individual related by blood, marriage or adoption to any such
individual or with any entity in which any such entity or individual owns a 5%
or more beneficial interest (each a “Related Party”),
except for (i) customary employment arrangements and benefit programs on
reasonable terms, (ii) any agreement, transaction, commitment or arrangement on
an arms-length basis on terms no less favorable than terms which would have been
obtainable from a person other than such Related Party, or (iii) any agreement,
transaction, commitment or arrangement which is approved by a majority of the
disinterested directors of the Company. For purposes hereof, any director who is
also an officer of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall not be a
disinterested director with respect to any such agreement, transaction,
commitment or arrangement. “Affiliate” for
purposes hereof means, with respect to any person or entity, another person or
entity that, directly or indirectly, (i) has a 5% or more equity interest in
that person or entity, (ii) has 5% or more common ownership with that person or
entity, (iii) controls that person or entity, or (iv) shares common control with
that person or entity. “Control” or "Controls" for
purposes hereof means that a person or entity has the power, direct or indirect,
to conduct or govern the policies of another person or entity.
i. Filing of Form
8-K. On or before the date which is three (3) Trading Days
after the Execution Date, the Company shall file a Current Report on Form 8-K
with the SEC describing the terms of the transaction contemplated by the
Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act, if such filing is
required.
j. Corporate
Existence. The Company shall use its best efforts to preserve
and continue the corporate existence of the Company.
k. Notice of Certain Events
Affecting Registration; Suspension of Right to Make a Put. The Company
shall promptly notify Investor upon the occurrence of any of the following
events in respect of a Registration Statement or related prospectus in respect
of an offering of the Shares: (i) receipt of any comments or
a request for additional information by the SEC or any other federal
or state governmental authority either prior to or during the period
of effectiveness of the Registration Statement for amendments or supplements to
the Registration Statement or related prospectus; (ii) the issuance by the SEC
or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order
suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of
any proceedings for that purpose; (iii) receipt of any notification with respect
to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of
the Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any
proceeding for such purpose; (iv) the happening of any event that makes any
statement made in such Registration Statement or related prospectus or any
document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue
in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in the
Registration Statement, related prospectus or documents so that, in the case of
a Registration Statement, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of
the related prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading; and (v) the Company's reasonable
determination that a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement
would be appropriate, and the Company shall promptly make available to Investor
any such supplement or amendment to the related prospectus. The Company shall
not deliver to Investor any Put Notice during the continuation of any of the
foregoing events.
l. The Company is aware and
acknowledges that it may not be able to issue Put Notices under this Agreement
if it can not obtain an effective Registration Statement or if any issuances of
Common Stock pursuant to any Put Notices would violate any rules of the
Principal Market. The Company further is aware and acknowledges that any
fees paid or shares issued pursuant to this Agreement shall be earned on the
date hereof and not refundable or returnable under any
circumstances.
m. Reimbursement. If (i)
Investor, other than by reason of its gross negligence or willful misconduct,
becomes involved in any capacity in any action, proceeding or investigation
brought by any shareholder of the Company, in connection with or as a result of
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents,
or if Investor is impleaded in any such action, proceeding or investigation by
any person, or (ii) Investor, other than by reason of its gross negligence or
willful misconduct or by reason of its trading of the Common Stock in a manner
that is illegal under the federal securities laws, becomes involved in any
capacity in any action, proceeding or investigation brought by the SEC against
or involving the Company or in connection with or as a result of the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, or
if Investor is impleaded in any such action, proceeding or investigation by any
person, then in any such case, the Company will reimburse Investor for its
reasonable legal and other expenses (including the cost of any investigation and
preparation) incurred in connection therewith, as such expenses are incurred. In
addition, other than with respect to any matter in which Investor is a named
party, the Company will pay to Investor the charges, as reasonably determined by
Investor, for the time of any officers or employees of Investor devoted to
appearing and preparing to appear as witnesses, assisting in preparation for
hearings, trials or pretrial matters, or otherwise with respect to inquiries,
hearing, trials, and other proceedings relating to the subject matter of this
Agreement. The reimbursement obligations of the Company under this section shall
be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have, shall
extend upon the same terms and conditions to any affiliates of Investor that are
actually named in such action, proceeding or investigation, and partners,
directors, agents, employees, attorneys, accountants, auditors and controlling
persons (if any), as the case may be, of Investor and any such affiliate, and
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successors of the Company,
Investor and any such affiliate and any such person.
n. Transfer Agent
Instructions. Upon effectiveness of the Registration Statement the
Company shall deliver instructions to its transfer agent to issue shares of
Common Stock to the Investor free of restrictive legends on or before each
Closing Date pursuant to the blanket legal opinion to be delivered in accordance
with the terms of Section 3(k) of the Registration Rights
Agreement.
o. Non-disclosure of Non-public
Information.
(i) The
Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any other Person acting on its
behalf will provide the Investor or its agents or counsel with any information
that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless
prior thereto the Company identifies such information as being material
non-public information and provides one of the principals of the Investor with
the opportunity to accept or refuse to accept such material non-public
information for review. The Company acknowledges that only Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
or Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxx shall have the authority to accept the receipt of material
non-public information from the Company. The Company acknowledges that any
information provided to the Investor without first being accepted by these two
designated individuals will be deemed not to be material non-public information
and the Investor shall be under no duty to maintain the confidentiality of such
information. The Company understands and confirms that the Investor shall
be relying on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in
securities of the Company.
(ii) Nothing
herein shall require the Company to disclose non-public information to the
Investor or its advisors or representatives, and the Company represents that it
does not disseminate non-public information to any investors who purchase stock
in the Company in a public offering, to money managers or to securities
analysts, provided, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Company will, as hereinabove provided, immediately notify the
advisors and representatives of the Investor and, if any, underwriters, of any
event or the existence of any circumstance (without any obligation to disclose
the specific event or circumstance) of which it becomes aware, constituting
non-public information (whether or not requested of the Company specifically or
generally during the course of due diligence by such persons or entities),
which, if not disclosed in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement
would cause such prospectus to include a material misstatement or to omit a
material fact required to be stated therein in order to make the statements,
therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.
Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to mean that such
persons or entities other than the Investor (without the written consent of the
Investor prior to disclosure of such information) may not obtain non-public
information in the course of conducting due diligence in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and nothing herein shall prevent any such persons or
entities from notifying the Company of their opinion that based on such due
diligence by such persons or entities, that the Registration Statement contains
an untrue statement of material fact or omits a material fact required to be
stated in the Registration Statement or necessary to make the statements
contained therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not
misleading.
(iii) Nothing contained
herein creates or establishes a fiduciary relationship on the part of the
Investor or its principals. Nothing contained herein establishes a duty on the
part of the Investor or its principals not to trade on or otherwise use any
information disclosed to the Investor by the Company.
6. Cover. If, the number of
Shares represented by any Put Notices become restricted or are no longer freely
trading for any reason, and after the applicable Closing Date, the Investor
purchases, in an open market transaction or otherwise, the Company’s Common
Stock (the “Covering
Shares”) in order to make delivery in satisfaction of a sale of Common
Stock by the Investor (the “Sold Shares”), which
delivery such Investor anticipated to make using the Shares represented by the
Put Notice (a “Buy-In”), the Company
shall pay to the Investor the Buy-In Adjustment Amount (as defined
below). The “Buy-In Adjustment
Amount” is the amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the Investor’s
total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Covering
Shares over (b) the net proceeds (after brokerage commissions, if any) received
by the Investor from the sale of the Sold Shares. The
Company shall pay the Buy-In Adjustment Amount to the Investor in immediately
available funds immediately upon demand by the Investor. By way of
illustration and not in limitation of the foregoing, if the Investor purchases
Common Stock having a total purchase price (including brokerage commissions) of
$11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to the Common Stock it sold for net
proceeds of $10,000, the Buy-In Adjustment Amount which the Company will be
required to pay to the Investor will be $1,000.
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7.
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Conditions Of The
Company's Obligation To
Sell.
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The obligation hereunder of the Company
to issue and sell the Shares to the Investor is further subject to the
satisfaction, at or before each Closing Date, of each of the following
conditions set forth below. These conditions are for the Company's sole benefit
and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole
discretion.
a. The
Investor shall have executed each of this Agreement and the Registration Rights
Agreement and delivered the same to the Company.
b. The
Investor shall have delivered to the Company the Purchase Price for the Shares
being purchased by the Investor at the Closing (after receipt of confirmation of
delivery of such Shares) by wire transfer of immediately available funds
pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.
c. The
representations and warranties of the Investor shall be true and correct as of
the date when made and as of the applicable Closing Date as though made at that
time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific
date), and the Investor shall have performed, satisfied and complied with the
covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be
performed, satisfied or complied with by the Investor at or prior to such
Closing Date.
d. No
statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall
have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or governmental
authority of competent jurisdiction which prohibits the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
e.
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No
Valuation Event shall have occurred since the applicable Pricing
Period.
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8.
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Further Conditions Of
The Investor's Obligation To
Purchase.
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The obligation of the Investor
hereunder to purchase Shares is subject to the satisfaction, on or before each
Closing Date, of each of the following conditions set forth below.
a. The
Company shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents and delivered the
same to the Investor.
b. The
Common Stock shall be authorized for quotation on the Principal Market and
trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Principal
Market or the SEC, at any time beginning on the date hereof and through and
including the respective Closing Date (excluding suspensions of not more than
one Trading Day resulting from business announcements by the Company, provided
that such suspensions occur prior to the Company's delivery of the Put Notice
related to such Closing).
c. The
representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct as of
the date when made and as of the applicable Closing Date as though made at that
time (except for (i) representations and warranties that speak as of a specific
date and (ii) with respect to the representations made in Sections 4(g), (h) and
(j) and the third sentence of Section 4(k) hereof, events which occur on or
after the date of this Agreement and are disclosed in SEC filings made by the
Company at least ten (10) Trading Days prior to the applicable Put Notice Date)
and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied with the covenants,
agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed,
satisfied or complied with by the Company on or before such Closing
Date. The Investor may request an update as of such Closing Date
regarding the representation contained in Section 4(c) above.
d.
The Board of Directors of the Company shall have adopted resolutions consistent
with Section 4(b)(ii) above and in a form reasonably acceptable to the Investor
(the “Resolutions”) and
such Resolutions shall not have been amended or rescinded prior to such Closing
Date.
e. Investor
shall have received a copy of the Company’s Resolutions authorizing this
offering which shall be attached hereto as Exhibit
B.
f. The
Company shall have executed and delivered to the Investor the certificates
representing, or have executed electronic book-entry transfer of, the Shares (in
such denominations as such Investor shall request) being purchased by the
Investor at such Closing.
g. No
statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall
have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or governmental
authority of competent jurisdiction which prohibits the consummation of any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
h. The
Registration Statement shall be effective on each Closing Date and no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration statement shall be in effect or
shall be pending or threatened. Furthermore, on each Closing Date (i) neither
the Company nor Investor shall have received notice that the SEC has issued or
intends to issue a stop order with respect to such Registration Statement or
that the SEC otherwise has suspended or withdrawn the effectiveness of such
Registration Statement, either temporarily or permanently, or intends or has
threatened to do so (unless the SEC's concerns have been addressed and Investor
is reasonably satisfied that the SEC no longer is considering or intends to take
such action),and (ii) no other suspension of the use or withdrawal of the
effectiveness of such Registration Statement or related prospectus shall
exist.
i. At
the time of each Closing, the Registration Statement (including information or
documents incorporated by reference therein) and any amendments or supplements
thereto shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading or which would require public disclosure or an
update supplement to the prospectus.
j. There
shall have been no filing of a petition in bankruptcy, either voluntarily or
involuntarily, with respect to the Company and there shall not have been
commenced any proceedings under any bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or any laws
relating to the relief of debtors, readjustment of indebtedness or
reorganization of debtors, and there shall have been no calling of a meeting of
creditors of the Company or appointment of a committee of creditors or
liquidating agents or offering of a composition or extension to creditors by,
for, with or without the consent or acquiescence of the Company.
k. If
applicable, the shareholders of the Company shall have approved the issuance of
any Shares in excess of the Maximum Common Stock Issuance in accordance with
Section 2(i).
l. The
conditions to such Closing set forth in Section 2(f) shall have been satisfied
on or before such Closing Date.
m. The
Company shall have delivered to such Investor such other documents relating to
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Investor or its counsel
may reasonably request upon reasonable advance notice.
9. Termination. This
Agreement shall terminate upon any of the following events:
(i) the
earlier of the date upon which the Investor has purchased pursuant to this
Agreement 4,000,000 shares or the Company’s Common Stock or an aggregate of
$6,000,000 of the Common Stock of the Company; provided that the Company’s
representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Agreement insofar as
applicable to the transactions consummated hereunder prior to such termination,
shall survive the termination of this Agreement for the period of any applicable
statute of limitations,
(ii) on
the date which is twenty-four (24) months after the Effective Date;
(iii) if
the Company shall file or consent by answer or otherwise to the entry of an
order for relief or approving a petition for relief, reorganization or
arrangement or any other petition in bankruptcy for liquidation or to take
advantage of any bankruptcy or insolvency law of any jurisdiction, or shall make
an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or shall consent to the
appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee or other officer with similar
powers of itself or of any substantial part of its property, or shall be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or shall take corporate action for the
purpose of any of the foregoing, or if a court or governmental authority of
competent jurisdiction shall enter an order appointing a custodian, receiver,
trustee or other officer with similar powers with respect to the Company or any
substantial part of its property or an order for relief or approving a petition
for relief or reorganization or any other petition in bankruptcy or for
liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy or insolvency law, or an
order for the dissolution, winding up or liquidation of the Company, or if any
such petition shall be filed against the Company; or
(iv) if
the Company shall issue or sell any equity securities or securities convertible
into, or exchangeable for, equity securities (other than the current convertible
debenture offering) or enter into any other equity financing facility during the
Open Period, other than in compliance with Section 4(v).
Upon the
occurrence of one of the above-described events, the Company shall send written
notice of such event to the Investor.
10. Indemnification.
(a) In
consideration of the Investor’s execution and delivery of this Agreement, and in
addition to all of the Company’s other obligations under this Agreement, the
Company shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless the Investor, and all
of its officers, directors, partners, employees and agents (including, without
limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement) (collectively, the “Investor
Indemnitees”) from and against any and all actions, causes of action,
suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and
expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Investor
Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is
sought), and including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the “Indemnified
Liabilities”), incurred by the Investor Indemnitees or any of them as a
result of, or arising out of, or relating to (i) any misrepresentation or breach
of any representation or warranty made by the Company in this Agreement or the
Registration Rights Agreement or any other certificate, instrument or document
contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any breach of any covenant, agreement or
obligation of the Company contained in this Agreement or the Registration Rights
Agreement or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby
or thereby, or (iii) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made against
such Investor Indemnitee not arising out of any action or inaction of an
Investor Indemnitee, and arising out of or resulting from the execution,
delivery, performance or enforcement of this Agreement or any other instrument,
document or agreement executed pursuant hereto by any of the Investor
Indemnitees. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company
may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum
contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified
Liabilities, which is permissible under applicable law.
(b) In
consideration of the Company’s execution and delivery of this Agreement, and in
addition to all of the Investor’s other obligations under this Agreement, the
Investor shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless the Company and all
of its officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents (including,
without limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the “Company Indemnitees”)
from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by the Company
Indemnitees or any of them as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (i)
any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the
Investor in this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, or any instrument
or document contemplated hereby or thereby executed by the Investor, (ii) any
breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Investor(s) contained in
this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement or any other
certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby executed by
the Investor, or (iii) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made
against such Company Indemnitee based on misrepresentations or due to a
breach by the Investor and arising out of or resulting from the execution,
delivery, performance or enforcement of this Agreement or any other instrument,
document or agreement executed pursuant hereto by any of the Company
Indemnitees. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Investor
may be unenforceable for any reason, the Investor shall make the maximum
contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified
Liabilities, which is permissible under applicable law.
(c) The
obligations of the parties to indemnify or make contribution under this Section
10 shall survive termination of this Agreement.
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11.
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Governing Law;
Miscellaneous.
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a. Governing Law. This
Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflict of laws. Each
party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state
courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan, for the
adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any
transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim
that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that
such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the
venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby
irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being
served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to such
party at the address for such notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that
such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice
thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right
to serve process in any manner permitted by law. If any provision of
this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such
invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability
of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the validity or
enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other
jurisdiction.
b.
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Commitment Fees;
Structuring Fees; Placement Agent Fees; and Legal
Fees.
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(i) As
an inducement to LeadDog Capital, L.P. to enter into this Agreement, the Company
has agreed to issue to LeadDog Capital, L.P. as a commitment fee a Warrant to
purchase 150,000 shares of its Common Stock. The shares underlying
the Warrant will be registered in the current offering and issued to LeadDog
Capital, L.P. in certificate form no later than five (5) Trading Days after the
Execution Date.
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(ii) The
Company has agreed to issue to LeadDog Capital Markets, LLC as a
structuring fee a Warrant to purchase 150,000 shares of its Common Stock.
The shares underlying the Warrant will be registered in the current
offering and issued to LeadDog Capital Markets, LLC in certificate form no
later than five (5) trading days after the Execution
Date.
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(iii) The
Company shall be solely responsible for paying the Placement Agent its fee
pursuant to the Placement Agent Agreement.
(iv) The
Company and the Investor shall be responsible for their own attorney’s fees
involved in the preparation and review of the Transaction Documents and the
closing of the transaction.
(v) Except
as otherwise set forth herein, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its
advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses
incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement. Any attorneys' fees and expenses
incurred by either the Company or by the Investor in connection with the
preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of any amendments to this
Agreement or relating to the enforcement of the rights of any party, after the
occurrence of any breach of the terms of this Agreement by another party or any
default by another party in respect of the transactions contemplated hereunder,
shall be paid on demand by the party which breached the Agreement and/or
defaulted, as the case may be. The Company shall pay all stamp and other taxes
and duties levied in connection with the issuance of any Securities issued
pursuant hereto.
c. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which
shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when
counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party;
provided that a facsimile signature shall be considered due execution and shall
be binding upon the signatory thereto with the same force and effect as if the
signature were an original, not a facsimile signature.
d. Headings;
Singular/Plural. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of
reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this
Agreement. Whenever required by the context of this Agreement, the
singular shall include the plural and masculine shall include the
feminine.
e. Severability. If any
provision of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity
or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the
validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other
jurisdiction.
f. Entire Agreement;
Amendments. This Agreement supersedes all other prior oral or written
agreements between the Investor, the Company, their affiliates and persons
acting on their behalf with respect to the matters discussed herein, and this
Agreement and the instruments referenced herein (including the other Transaction
Documents) contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the
matters covered herein and therein and, except as specifically set forth herein
or therein, neither the Company nor the Investor makes any representation,
warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. No provision of
this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by
the Company and the Investor, and no provision hereof may be waived other than
by an instrument in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is
sought.
g. Notices. Any notices
or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of
this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered (i)
upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by
facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or
electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one
(1) day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight delivery service,
in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses
and facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:
If to the
Company:
Xxxxxx
Mining Corp.
00000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxx
000
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention: W.
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.
Telephone:
Facsimile:
If to the
Investor:
At the address listed in the
Questionnaire.
Each party shall provide five (5) days'
prior written notice to the other party of any change in address or facsimile
number.
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No Assignment.
This Agreement may not be assigned.
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i. No Third Party
Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties
hereto and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced
by, any other person.
j. Survival. The
representations and warranties of the Company and the Investor contained in
Sections 2 and 3, the agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4 and 5,
and the indemnification provisions set forth in Section 10, shall survive each
of the Closings. The Investor shall be responsible only for its own
representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.
k. Publicity. The
Company and Investor shall consult with each other in issuing any press releases
or otherwise making public statements with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby and no party shall issue any such press release or otherwise
make any such public statement without the prior written consent of the other
parties, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, except
that no prior consent shall be required if such disclosure is required by law,
in which such case the disclosing party shall provide the other parties with
prior notice of such public statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company shall not publicly disclose the name of Investor without the prior
written consent of such Investor, except to the extent required by law. Investor
acknowledges that this Agreement and all or part of the Transaction Documents
may be deemed to be "material contracts" as that term is defined by Item
601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K, and that the Company may therefore be required to
file such documents as exhibits to reports or registration statements filed
under the Securities 1933 Act or the 1934 Act. Investor further agrees that the
status of such documents and materials as material contracts shall be determined
solely by the Company, in consultation with its counsel.
l. Further Assurances.
Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such
further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other
agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as the other party may
reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes
of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby.
m. Placement Agent.
Except as set forth in the Placement Agent Agreement, no fees or commissions
will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant,
finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other person or entity, with
respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. The Investor shall have no obligation with respect to any
fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other persons or
entities for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Investor, their employees, officers, directors, agents, and partners, and their
respective affiliates, from and against all claims, losses, damages, costs
(including the costs of preparation and attorney’s fees) and expenses incurred
in respect of any such claimed or existing fees, as such fees and expenses are
incurred.
n. No Strict
Construction. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be
the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules
of strict construction will be applied against any party.
o. Remedies. The
Investor and each holder of the Shares shall have all rights and remedies set
forth in this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and all rights and
remedies which such holders have been granted at any time under any other
agreement or contract and all of the rights which such holders have under any
law. Any person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be
entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other
security), to recover damages by reason of any default or breach of any
provision of this Agreement, including the recovery of reasonable attorneys fees
and costs, and to exercise all other rights granted by law.
p. Payment Set Aside. To
the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to the Investor
hereunder or the Registration Rights Agreement or the Investor enforces or
exercises its rights hereunder or thereunder, and such payment or payments or
the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are
subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside,
recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise
restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common
law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration
the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be
revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been
made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
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MINING CORP.
QUESTIONNAIRE
The information contained in this
Questionnaire is being furnished in order to determine whether the undersigned’s
subscription to purchase the Shares described in this Agreement may be
accepted.
All Information Contained In
This Questionnaire Will Be Treated Confidentially. The
undersigned understands, however, that the Company may present this
Questionnaire to such parties as it deems appropriate if called upon to
establish that the proposed offer and sale of the Securities is exempt from
registration under the 1933 Act, as amended. Further, the undersigned
understands that the offering may be required to be reported to the Securities
and Exchange Commission, NASDAQ and to various state securities and “blue sky”
regulators.
In Addition To Signing The
Signature Page, If Requested By The Company, The Undersigned Must Complete Form
W-9.
I. Please Check Each Of The
Statements Below That Applies.
1.
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The
undersigned: (a) has total assets in excess of $5,000,000; (b) was not
formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities and (c) has
its principal place of business in
___________.
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2.
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The
undersigned is a natural person whose individual net worth* or joint net
worth with his or her spouse exceeds
$1,000,000.
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3.
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The
undersigned is a natural person who had an individual income* in excess of
$200,000 in each of the two most recent years and who reasonably expects
an individual income in excess of $200,000 in the current
year. Such income is solely that of the undersigned and
excludes the income of the undersigned’s
spouse.
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4.
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The
undersigned is a natural person who, together with his or her spouse, has
had a joint income* in excess of $300,000 in each of the two most recent
years and who reasonably expects a joint income in excess of $300,000 in
the current year.
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* For
purposes of this Questionnaire, the term “net worth” means the excess of total
assets over total liabilities. In determining “income”, an investor
should add to his or her adjusted gross income any amounts attributable to
tax-exempt income received, losses claimed as a limited partner in any limited
partnership, deductions claimed for depletion, contributions to XXX or Xxxxx
retirement plan, alimony payments and any amount by which income from long-term
capital gains has been reduced in arriving at adjusted gross
income.
5. The
undersigned is:
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(a)
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a
bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the 1933 Act;
or
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(b)
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a
savings and loan association or other institution as defined in Section
3(a)(5)(A) of the 1933 Act whether acting in its individual or fiduciary
capacity; or
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(c)
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a
broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the 1934
Act; or
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(d)
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an
insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the 1933 Act;
or
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(e)
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An
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or
a business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940; or
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(f)
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a
small business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business
Administration under Section 301 (c) or (d) of the Small Business
Investment Act of 1958; or
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6.
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The
undersigned is an entity in which all of the equity owners are “accredited
investors”, as that term is defined in Rule 501(a)(3) of Regulation D of
the 1933 Act.
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II.
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INVESTOR
INFORMATION.
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(a)
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IF
THE UNDERSIGNED IS AN INDIVIDUAL:
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Name
_______________________________________________
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Street
Address
________________________________________
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City,
State, Zip Code
___________________________________
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Phone
____________________ Fax
_______________________
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Send
Correspondence to:
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_____________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________
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(b)
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IF
THE UNDERSIGNED IS NOT AN
INDIVIDUAL:
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Name
of Entity
________________________________________
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Person’s
Name ___________________ Title_________________
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State
of Organization
___________________________________
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Principal
Business Address
______________________________
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City,
State, Zip Code
___________________________________
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Phone
____________________ Fax
_______________________
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Send
Correspondence to:
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_____________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________
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_____________________________________________________
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XXXXXX
MINING CORP.
SIGNATURE
PAGE
Your signature on this Signature Page
evidences your agreement to be bound by this Agreement, the Questionnaire, and
the Registration Rights Agreement.
1. The
undersigned hereby represents that (a) the information contained in the
Questionnaire is complete and accurate and (b) the undersigned will notify Xxxxxx Mining Corp.
immediately if any material change in any of the information occurs prior to the
acceptance of the undersigned’s subscription and will promptly send Xxxxxx Mining Corp.
written confirmation of such change.
2. The
undersigned signatory hereby certifies that he/she has read and understands this
Agreement and Questionnaire, and the representations made by the undersigned in
this Agreement and Questionnaire are true and accurate.
____________________________
Date
By:
____________________________
(Signature)
Name:
_________________________
(Please Type or Print)
Title:
___________________________
(Please Type or Print)
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COMPANY ACCEPTANCE
PAGE
This Agreement
accepted and agreed
to
this 15th day of October, 2009.
XXXXXX
MINING CORP.
By__________________________________
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx, its President
LIST OF
EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT
A
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Registration
Rights Agreement
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EXHIBIT
B
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Board
Resolution
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EXHIBIT
C
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Opinion
of Company’s Counsel (Closing)
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EXHIBIT
D
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Put
Notice
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EXHIBIT
E
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Opinion
of Company’s Counsel (Post Closing)
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LIST OF
SCHEDULES
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Schedule
4(a) Subsidiaries
Schedule
4(c) Capitalization
Schedule
4(e) Conflicts
Schedule
4(g) Material
Changes
Schedule
4(h) Litigation
Schedule
4(l) Intellectual
Property
Schedule
4(n) Liens
Schedule
4(t) Certain
Transactions
EXHIBIT
D
PUT
NOTICE NO._________
XXXXXX
MINING CORP.
The
undersigned, _______________________ hereby certifies, with respect to the sale
of shares of Common Stock of XXXXXX MINING CORP. (the
“Company”)
issuable in connection with this Advance Notice, delivered pursuant to the
Standby Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”), as
follows:
1. The
undersigned is the duly elected ______________ of the Company.
2. There
are no fundamental changes to the information set forth in the Registration
Statement which would require the Company to file a post effective amendment to
the Registration Statement.
3. The
Company has performed in all material respects all covenants and agreements to
be performed by the Company and has complied in all material respects with all
obligations and conditions contained in the Agreement on or prior to the Put
Notice Date, and shall continue to perform in all material respects all
covenants and agreements to be performed by the Company through the applicable
Put Date. All conditions to the delivery of this Put Notice are satisfied
as of the date hereof.
4. The
undersigned hereby represents, warrants and covenants that it has made all
filings (“SEC
Filings”) required to be made by it pursuant to applicable securities
laws (including, without limitation, all filings required under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, which include Forms 10-Q or 10-QSB, 00-X xx 00-XXX, 0-X,
xxx.). All SEC Filings and other public disclosures made by the Company,
including, without limitation, all press releases, analysts meetings and calls,
etc. (collectively, the “Public Disclosures”),
have been reviewed and approved for release by the Company’s attorneys and, if
containing financial information, the Company’s independent certified public
accountants. None of the Company’s Public Disclosures contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
5. The
Advance requested is $_____________________.
The
undersigned has executed this Put Notice this ____ day of
_________________.
XXXXXX
MINING CORP.
By:
Name:
Title:
(a) SUBSIDIARIES
SCHEDULE
4(c) CAPITALIZATION
SCHEDULE
4(e) CONFLICTS
SCHEDULE
4(g) MATERIAL CHANGES
SCHEDULE
4(h) LITIGATION
SCHEDULE
4(l) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
SCHEDULE
4(n) LIENS
SCHEDULE
4(t) CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS